On 9/2/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> "Marko Kreen" <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> > On 9/1/07, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> >> One problem is that we'd have to make CURRENT a reserved word to make it
> >> work exactly like that. Can anyone think of a variant syntax that
> >> doesn't need a new reserved word?
>
> > SET var FROM CURRENT SESSION
>
> Seems a little verbose, but maybe we could do "SET var FROM CURRENT"
> or "SET var FROM SESSION"?
I'd prefer FROM SESSION then. FROM CURRENT seems unclear.
> One point worth noting here is that this'd more or less automatically
> apply to ALTER USER SET and ALTER DATABASE SET as well ... not sure
> how much use-case there is for those, but it'd fall out ...
Does not seem to be a problem.
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marko